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How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode
Maciej Pocwierz
Imagine you create an empty, private AWS S3 bucket in a region of your preference. What will your AWS bill be the next morning?
A few weeks ago, I began working on the PoC of a document indexing system for my client. I created a single S3 bucket in the eu-west-1 region and uploaded some files there for testing. Two days later, I checked my AWS billing page, primarily to make sure that what I was doing was well within the free-tier limits. Apparently, it wasn’t. My bill was over $1,300, with the billing console showing nearly 100,000,000 S3 PUT requests executed within just one day!
Read more on Medium:
https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz...t-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1
Maciej Pocwierz
Imagine you create an empty, private AWS S3 bucket in a region of your preference. What will your AWS bill be the next morning?
A few weeks ago, I began working on the PoC of a document indexing system for my client. I created a single S3 bucket in the eu-west-1 region and uploaded some files there for testing. Two days later, I checked my AWS billing page, primarily to make sure that what I was doing was well within the free-tier limits. Apparently, it wasn’t. My bill was over $1,300, with the billing console showing nearly 100,000,000 S3 PUT requests executed within just one day!
Read more on Medium:
https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz...t-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1
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